Re: [VCARDDAV] phonetic-given-name and phonetic-family-name

[Simon Perreault <[e-mail]>]

Le 2013-08-30 09:37, Dan Brickley a écrit :
>  Looking at Teiichiro Fukuda's example,
> 
> N:山田;太郎;;;
> FN:山田 太郎
> X-PHONETIC-FIRST-NAME:たろう
> X-PHONETIC-LAST-NAME:やまだ
> 
> ... it seems the convention is to use the same implied natural language
> setting as the main naming fields, e.g. kanji vs hirigana here both
> express Japanese but the latter carries pronunciation information. How
> many languages does that generalize to?

Well, the SORT-AS examples in RFC 6350 demonstrate usefulness in various
languages other than Japanese.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350#section-5.9

> I can see the value for sorting in several languages, but wonder about
> addressing the broader question of pronunciation. The risk is of running
> speculatively ahead of implementations/product esp authoring tools. Are
> there any uses of something
> like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet in the
> wild for this?

My understanding so far is that the X-PHONETIC properties are used for
sorting, not pronunciation.

Simon